Xenoblade Chronicles 3 quadruples sales of second best-selling game in Japan
Monolith Soft’s JRPG opens in the Japanese physical market, selling over 112,000 copies.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 hasn’t yet made it to last week’s bestseller coinciding with the Japanese market, but Monolith Soft It wants to be one of the most popular this year for Nintendo Switch. It seems to be doing very well in the physical market as well as being successful in digital sales.
Second best-selling Digimon SurviveThis week’s sales data compiled by Famitsu and shared by Gematsu leaves us with Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Sold over 112,000 copies upon release in JapanThose are huge numbers considering it’s a dedicated Switch title and only physical units are counted.
In addition, the difference compared to the second class is vast. Digimon Survive also has a version for the second-place hybrid console, but it only does so. 28,536 pieces. We leave you below Japan’s weekly top 10 with relevant sales figures.
Bestsellers of the week in Japan
- [NSW] Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – 112,728 (New)
- [NSW] Digimon Survive – 28,536 (New)
- [NSW] Nintendo Switch Sports – 24,966 (623,493)
- [NSW] Monster Hunter Rise + Sunset – 17,209 (217,472)
- [NSW] LIVE LIVE – 14,098 (85,235)
- [PS5] Gran Turismo 7 – 12,453 (139,888)
- [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 11,542 (4,745.609)
- [NSW] Kirby and the Forgotten Lands – 11,201 (823,909)
- [NSW] Tengoku Struggle: Strayside – 10,912 (New)
- [NSW] Minecraft – 9873 (2.727.866)
As for the hardware, what shall we say? Nintendo Switch continues to dominate Japanese market with total sales last week with an iron fist 73,238 consolesThe majority of sales are in the OLED model, followed by the regular and Switch Lite.
Switch and OLED models dominate hardware salesPlayStation 5 gained a commercial momentum compared to previous periods and about 40,000 units Its next-gen direct rivalry is between the multithreaded model and the digital one, with the Xbox Series X and Series S having just under 9,000 consoles sold in Japan in the last seven days.
Best selling consoles of the week
- Nintendo Switch OLED – 42,355 (2,097,719)
- PlayStation 5 – 36,237 (1,548,670)
- Nintendo Switch – 20,489 (18,547,427)
- Nintendo Switch Lite – 10,394 (4,827.025)
- Xbox Series X – 7093 (134.893)
- PlayStation 5 Digital Edition – 3099 (255,311)
- Xbox Series S – 1895 (148,132)
- New 2DS LL (includes 2DS) – 87 (1,187,961)
- PlayStation 4-14 (7,819,783)
Outside of Japan, we’ve seen weekly data from other regions point to similar success for Monolith’s JRPG. For example, it’s already the best launch of the saga in a commercial sense in the UK, and the truth does not surprise us: we leave our analysis of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to you so you can see why we liked it so much. more.
Source: 3D Juegos
